Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1931, Page 6

Black, Noted Economist and Critic of :Its" Policies, Seen Slated for Post. Changes in some of the palicies of the Federal Fiirm Board were indicated here today when it was learned from reliable sources that -John Black, na- tionally known agricultural economist of Harvard University, is being con- sidered for appolntment s chief economist by the board. It is known that Joseph R. Davis, the present research director, wants to go back to his post at Leland Stanford University, so the board now has the opportunity to do some reorganizing. THE EVENING STAR. WASHIN(.}TON .. . SENATORS CALLED | T0 COTION PARLEY 57 Representatives From Nine States Asked to Join With Farm Board. By the Associated Press. Coincident with word that Egypt had made overtures to the United States Government looking to a world cottn | conference, Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia today called a meeting of Senators from nine Southern States | here tomorrow to canvass the cotton | situation with the Farm Board. The State Department was m(ormed. by the American legation at Cairo that Egypt was interested in any interna- tional steps to relieve the cotton situa- tion and that a communication was on n on the subject. | fer with George S. to Washington from Georgla to attend lhe mlm Black, Bankhead and Smith h.va lndlclM they would attend. 1 Willlams, eotwn member of 'Jie nator George h: arranged for the meeting with him ‘o_ “I do not know what the Senator ishes to distuss,” He said, “but I as- sume it is his own plan for dealing With the cotton problem. Certainly 1t will be about cotton. We are always glad to see those people and will be happv to go over Tihe ‘situation. with R liliams sald he had no knowledge | of the Egyptian proposal for interna- | tional action. Chairman Stone of the board has left | Washington for a short vacation, first | stopping in Chicago, presumably to con- } Milnor, head of the Grain Stabilization Corporation. Three | other members are absent, leaving only | Sam H Thompson and Williams to ne\ the Southern delegation. The chairman was noticeably in need | ‘ of rest as he stepped from his office. | His work days recently have ended late | THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1931. at night and he was compelled to work onaundnyltomrhhd- ‘proposed mxflsmm ported from Shanghai. As for cotton, no alternative for ‘the board’s rejected suggestion that eury third' row be plowed under has been forthicoming. In commenting on the board’s orig- inal plan, which was to have become | effective September 1, the chairman sald a major purpose was to bring the South to a full realization of the seri- ousness of the cotton Dl'ohle GROSNER'S 1325 | Come n Lomorrow or Saturduy until 2 p.m. closing time F STREET. Week End Specials These items are marked for the Two days only . . . until Saturday at clos- ing time. A Special Group of Regular $35 New Fall Topcoats Finely made garments, in cither raglan or plain shoulders, Included are mixtures, .nayy blues, tweeds, etc. All sizes.® the nv to fi Senator r ‘who has proposed that the Farm rd buy tot!on from Washington, but in this instance much Map. shows the westward progress of the center of povuuucn of the United I the current crop, paying 6 cents a terest becan the devel f count: now and 6 cents in October, - g e use Mr. Biagk Siates Srough the mSRE 358 lm;u to those farmers who contracted D e Tl-m center of population of the |which the center of population in its' not to plant nexi year, telegraphed the | Appointment of research men does not ordinarily occasion comment jn ‘Tubereulosis, Wheoping Cough, Typhe Measles, Scarlot Fever, and other conta- gious diseases. Our Towele and Onliwon Interfoided Toflet Tiasue should beused by every School, Factory, Office and Home. A. P. W. PAPER CO., ALBANY, N. Y. Pioncers for Cloanliness sinee 1577 standing critics of the And United States is now located 2.9 | westward movement has come to the ' following Senators to meet with him P g g S orthenst of . Linton, | thirty-ninth parailel of latitude' is re- | and the board here tomorrow and Sat- | some of Mr. Black’s observations, Gréene ty, Ind., moving | markable. e point fs north | urday: ‘westward in the last 10 years | was reached in 1790 and the farthest | Senators Connally, Texas; Gore and Board Silent on Move. {a total of' 22.3 imfles and 7.6 miles | south :n 1830, but the difference was l'{"l'xloltms_rOkhhmnl‘B ‘}-lull uandM Mci-] The board ‘southwerd, the Oensus Burcau an- 214 miles, ellar, Tennessee; Bailey an orri- fuTha oD s eipes mohi nounced taday. In 179 the center was located 23 |son. North Carolina; Harrison, Missis- all probabilty it will ,,,g‘ anmounce 'A(r« 1 Goversment. map shows | miles of Baltimore, and during the next |sippl: Black and Bankhead, Alabama; Davis’ retivney Doint is 31 miled southeast of | 10 years it had moved 18 miles west | Harris, Georgia; Smith »nd Byrnes, n aenl % aute and 338 priles northeast |of Baltimore, In 1810 it was in Vir- | South Carolina, and Fletcher and the stage is let w Mr. in Southwestern Indisna. | ginis, 40 miles west of Washington, | Trammell, Florida, charge. What is more lmporun thc 'rhe T et eas oeated” 8.3 iilles | and 10 years later it was 16 miles of | Senator George now is on the way information is that when Mr. Black [south of Spencer, Ind. Moorefield, W. Va., and in 1830 it was takes up. the work it will be the start| The bureau said the greatest move- 19 miles west of Moorefleld. of a series of poli cy changes by 'mcn ment west was during the decade from | In 1840 the center was locafed 16 the board hopes to reinstate itself in| 1850 to when the center ad- miles south of Clarksburg, W. Va., and | the ¢ood graces of agriculture. vanced 80. and the least move- | during the following 10 years it had thk has had wide experience, | ment west was the decade from | shifted to 23 miles southeast of Parkers- lnd economists in other branches of | 1910 to 1920, when it advanced only | burg, W Va. In 1860 the center moved the Federal Government 1list him|9.8 miles. The total westward move- |out of West Virginia ints Ohio. being among the four or five really outstand- | ment from 1799. to 1930 was 580 miles. | located 20 miles south of Chilicotie. ing men in his line of work. But he! The buréau s8id the closeness with | Ten years later it had shifted to 48 has seldom agreed with the programs | 2 i 5 s __ | miles east of Cincinnati and in 1880 enunciated from time to time 3 r; =~ | it had passed into Kentucky, 8 miles Farm Board and i its membum vard it is_known he has continued to west of Cincinnati. makes use of his recommendations as | |hold the contacts earlier and to The center in Kentucky one of their advisers they are gol: { increase them, with the result that his| only a short while, for the Census follow a different line of Teasontog then | Acquaintance with farm problems 1s | Bureay in 1890 spotted it in Indiana, has been followed heretafore. limited to one area or to any 20 miles east of Columbus, and in which Mr. -Davis is believed to have en- | On€ Eroup of States. This knowledg> | State it has remained for the last 41 Joyed the confidence of the board mm-!"“ caused Mr. Black to arrive at @ | yegrs. large degree. 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